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  1. For factual information about these books see: https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/Developments-in-French-Politics-6/?K=9781352007756; https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669691.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199669691; https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-French-Politics-and-Culture/Demossier-Lees-Mondon-Parish/p/book/9781138101753

  2. Here I need to come clean: what follows is the outline of an approach that I myself have developed and applied in a recently published book on France (Smith 2021).

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Smith, A. Portraits of France and the French: a review of three weighty contributions. Fr Polit 19, 329–342 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-021-00147-9

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